Report

Gender and Land Restoration Trainer of Trainers (ToT) Reflection Workshops

Abstract

The reflection workshops (see Annex 1 for workshop agenda) were held on the 12th and 13th of April 2022 in Tawa, Mbooni East and Kibwezi Town, Kibwezi East, Makueni County, Kenya. The workshops brought together 83 participants from the County Government of Makueni, Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), and representatives from community and farmer groups and ward-level committees on climate change. The half-day workshops were organised as part of the ICRAF-led project on ‘Promoting nature-based solutions for land restoration while strengthening the national monitoring technical working group in Kenya’, funded by ‘UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions’ (UK PACT), and built upon previous workshops and training events on gender transformative approaches for land restoration (Figure 1). The half-day workshops aimed to bring together those trained in community dialogue activities to reflect on the lessons learned from the training events and identify opportunities for further scaling